Eastern Europe, 1835. Two riders cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. They are the gendarme Costandin and his son. Together they are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman master and is suspected of having an affair with the noble’s wife.
In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences.
One Night Only! Friday, April 8 at 7:30 at the IU Fine Art Theater One Day in April is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the triumphs and failures of two […]
There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s (Charlotte Rampling) 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband (Tom Courtenay). The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps.
April 17 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations The definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time […]
Where else can you see four first-run, feature-length films for just $10? On April 17th you can spend the day at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater and do just that. The Ryder […]
The Ryder is partnering with the Down Syndrome Family Connection to host a free screening of Where Hope Grows on Sunday, April 17 at the IU Fine Arts Theater at […]
One Night Only! Sunday, April 17 at 7:30 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater In 2012, jihadists took control of northern Mali. They banned music, destroying radio stations and publicly burning instruments. […]
We’ve lost touch with nature. This disconnect hurts our health, dims our spirit, and threatens our future. Narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature is a cinematic journey through the beauty and intimacy of our vital relationship with the natural world. And it shows that a renewed connection with nature is key not only to our well being, but also to solving our climate and environmental crises.
An anthropologist recalls his childhood in France and a student trip to the USSR where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian.
Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum’s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto staged re-enactments and archives for FRANCOFONIA, a fascinating portrait of real-life characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich and their compulsory collaboration at the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation. These two remarkable men – enemies then collaborators – share an alliance which would become the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures.
June 3, 4 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Summer Passes $30 ♦ Group Tickets call 812 339.2002 In this penetrating dissection of modern China from […]
Meet the filmmaker of this low budget, slasher horror movie written and directed by Ben Arvin, a Southern Indiana native and IU alum. Dance with the cast and crew at Serendipity after the screening.
June 24, 25 David Hockney is one of the great surviving icons of the 1960s; the new bio-pic Hockney weaves together a portrait of the multifaceted artist from frank interviews […]
June 24 – July 9 Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s first two features, Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, which some of you saw at Ryder, were eloquent, deft dramas. Louder Than […]
June 24 – July 16 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Summer Passes $30 Cover your ears but open your hearts for Marguerite. 1921: the […]
A young, naive bride-to-be takes a job as a maid for a comparatively well-to-do couple in Tehran, unaware as she enters their apartment that she has been recruited as a domestic spy, keeping tabs on a boorish husband who may be having an affair. Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s film, A Separation, won the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award in 2012.
Truth is stranger than fiction. When journalist David Farrier came across a an online reference to a fringe sport in Los Angeles called “competitive endurance tickling” he thought he’d lit upon another amusingly weird topic for his lighthearted reports on New Zealand television. But it turned out to be no laughing matter.
Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them. From the producers of the Academy Award-nominated Persepolis and the mind of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi comes a riveting sci-fi adventure set in an alternate steampunk universe.
Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, kings and sorcerers: Tale of Tales is based on 3 spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by Neapolitan poet and courtier Giambattista Basile, ♦ Set on the Afghan battlefield, Neither Heaven Nor Earth is a contemporary ghost story that’s both unabashedly mystical and thrillingly pulpy.
Set on the Afghan battlefield, Neither Heaven Nor Earth is a contemporary ghost story that’s both unabashedly mystical and thrillingly pulpy.
A young French Red Cross doctor in Warsaw is treating the last of the French soldiers in the waning days of World War II. One night, a Benedictine nun appears on her doorstep.
Sea monsters, monarchs, ogres, and sorcerers: Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly star in this excursion into the dark heart of fairy tales. ♦ So few Italian films make it Stateside that it’s cause for celebration when a terrific one appears. –Time magazine
Nuts! is the sort of story the Coen Brothers would make up, except in this case, the story is true. NUTS! recounts the rags-to-riches tale of John Romulus Brinkley, a Kansas doctor who in 1917 discovered that he could cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men.
Sunday, Sept 4 4:30 Buskirk-Chumley Theater
We’re in the midst of a crisis of genetic diversity: we’ve lost over 94% of our vegetable seed varieties, leaving our food supply dangerously vulnerable to blight and famine.